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APPLICANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("applicant" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "applicant"):
aspirant; aspirer; hopeful; wannabe; wannabee (an ambitious and aspiring young person)
bidder (someone who makes an offer)
claimant (someone who claims a benefit or right or title)
job candidate (an applicant who is being considered for a job)
material (a person judged suitable for admission or employment)
petitioner; requester; suppliant; supplicant (one praying humbly for something)
possible (an applicant who might be suitable)
probable (an applicant likely to be chosen)
submitter (someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others)
Derivation:
apply (ask (for something))
Context examples:
The applicant must identify the cancer center concept to be promoted within its institution, research objectives for the center, and ensure research goals are translated into improved patient care, cancer prevention and control, education programs, and community information services.
(Cancer Center Planning Grant, NCI Thesaurus)
They seem not able to do any thing without him.—'Upon my word, Mr. E.,' I often say, 'rather you than I. I do not know what would become of my crayons and my instrument, if I had half so many applicants.'—Bad enough as it is, for I absolutely neglect them both to an unpardonable degree.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Donor re-entry request: An applicant's request to re-enter a deferred donor when regulations and/or guidance do not provide a qualification method or process for their specific situation. (21 CFR 610.41(b)) License re-issuance: request from applicant to change legal name.
(Correspondence, Food and Drug Administration)
The Principle Investigator (PI) must have a formal written appointment with the applicant organization, which must be in the form of an official relationship between the parties, but need not involve a salary or other form of remuneration.
(Grant Principal Investigator, NCI Thesaurus)
A written regulatory communication from FDA to an applicant, who submitted request to the agency to approve marketing or to license medical product, stating that the agency can approve the application or abbreviated application if specific additional information or material is submitted or specific conditions are met.
(FDA Approval, NCI Thesaurus)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards NRSA individual postdoctoral fellowships (F32) to the most promising applicants to support full-time research training related to the mission of the NIH awarding components.
(Individual National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)
A few words from the prince disposed of each case, and, if the applicant liked not the judgment, a quick glance from the prince's dark eyes sent him to the door with the grievance all gone out of him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Your wide range of creativity and your ability to keep complex projects on budget is a rare skill, not often found in an applicant who is such a creative thinker, but this is exactly what VIPs find so attractive about you, in addition to your vision and sound judgement.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
